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Image reading apparatus

US5283698A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 6, 1992
Grant dateFeb 1, 1994
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Expiry dateApr 6, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/04796
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is disclosed an image reading apparatus in which the scanning optical system having a slit is caused to scan in a short-side direction of the slit, and light passed through the slit and reflected from or transmitted through an original is guided to a solid-state image pickup element through an optical image forming element so that the image is formed on the solid-state image pickup element and is read. In the apparatus, opening portions for detecting a shift in relative positional relationship between the slit and the solid-state image pickup element are formed in both end portions of the slit in its longitudinal direction corresponding to a portion other than an effective image region of the solid-state image pickup element.

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